Granted !!!

ENDS: August 1st, 2017

Thanks John!

OK, Kats & Kittens, its official, we're on until August 1, 2017.

Hi guys, some update. I use Tamiya spray primer, I will paint with Ammo dunkelgrau later, when the weather improves and we have less humidity.

Also, work in the panzer commander, some carving in a Tristar one with Legend head....

Regards from the south
Alvaro

Very nice work, shaping up to be a first class build.

Your picture comparing the two tanks really show how far war will advance technology and how fast.

Looking good, Alvaro!
I, also, like the comparison photo along side the King Tiger

Hello, I've got some progress photos on my projects. FT-17 is being built at work, I only have very rudimentary tools there and not too much time available, so it's a slow progress. I got the gloss coat now to apply wash.



And below is my PzIID, I decided to up my game and try to weather it a bit. I am now experimenting with mud effects, trial and error (well, mostly error), but I got to a point where I think I like how the wheels turned out, hull bottom still requires a lot of work.

Hi guys, I could paint the Panzer this week end, well, a base coat only. Tamiya color outside, inside Ammo creamweiss.

Regards from the cold south
Álvaro

Alvaro - Your build is coming along well. I always admire figure painters, it takes realism to a whole new level.

Shrimpman - Looking good! Building at work is a new concept for me, I like it. I wonder what my boss would say . . .

Haha! Yes, I did get into trouble about that, but I insisted it is my lunchbreak and nobody tells me what I can or cannot do with it. Boss lady not happy, but she knows she has no case if she tried to take it further. Apparently she sees no problem when people spend half day on a phone, but the moment I take out my tank during my break time, she goes nuts. Anyway I think I've finished both tanks, brought FT-17 home to take some pictures. They're no fireworks, but I am quite happy with myself anyway. I'm learning a lot and I can see improvement with each build.

Sorry for being stupid, but I cannot find the campaign gallery. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I was checking armorama-capmaigns-2017campaigns but cannot find Poland 1939 there...

https://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/30641 -The campaign started in 2016, hence...... PS-Good job getting paid to build your models, in a sense , and they look great!

Nice work Shrimpman...gotta give you 1/72 guys a lot of credit! That's one scale I'd never attempt.

Gallery updated! Thanks!

Hi all,

Plugging along on the early Pz.III Ausf.A, I have most of the lower hull and wheels painted.

The kit has gone together splendidly, aside from accuracy issues with the tires that I decided to ignore. My one major gripe is the tracks. They are designed to be workable and it comes with a jig, but the track pins come on the sprue so that you have to cut them off individually. Every other kit I have built with this track style, the pins come in nicely spaced runs so you can cut five or six at a time and slide them onto the tracks. In fact I am probably going to replace the kit tracks with the Miniart set.

Shrimpman - great job on your two mini²! Last summer I got to see a restored and running FT-17, one of the highlights of my year.

-Cheers Nathan

Shrimpman - Good work on your two contenders in Poland1939. They are both looking very attractive. They would go great right next to an aircraft.

We all need to post a couple of pictures in the campaign gallery to get the award, thanks Clayton for listing the page.

Nathan - Great progress so far on your Panzer. I too have had poor luck with the plastic pin type working tracks. The pins were never strong enough to survive my fat fingers wrestling to install them. I had good luck with a resin MasterClub set that look great and survived my bumbling. My go-tos are Fruils. Easy to build if time consuming, sturdy & with great natural sag courtesy of gravity working on the metal links.

Let us know how you make out.

I finally got a start on my own project for Poland 1939. It is a 7TP in 1/35 scale from a kit that would becpme a Mirage kit later with, I believe, some changes. This is the early one and I found it at a model show for $7 with a resin conversion kit to make it into a Soviet T-26.

The previous owner had cut some bits to fit the resin but I only found this out too late to fully reverse the mods. Oh well!

The kit is much nicer than I anticipated. The fit is good and the detail not too bad. The only rough patch so far is the fiddly boogie assemblies which needed a bit of putty.

I have a metal barrel & a set of Fruil tracks for the Soviet T-26. I'm hoping they will fit the kit, we will know shortly! Here are a few pics of the start & yes, I know the rear boogies are on bassakwards. They are not glued!

Also the molded on tools were sanded off and will be replaced with some A/M items.











I'll get more done on this before I go on the road for a couple of weeks and all progress halts. More pics later!

Hi guys, thanks Paul, very slow progress....
Very nice job Nathan!

A small update, due frozen temps here

Regards from the south
Álvaro

Hey, a lot of us are just now warming up!

We could use some of your cool around here. We are having a heat wave and it is too hot to go outside unless it is really necessary.

... same here in Europe.

Oppps, its a shame that we don't have hot days all the time!!!

Regards from the cold south
Álvaro

Alvaro - I no fan of the heat and wondered is northern Scotland might be cool enough for me . . .